Orange County Indexed
James Kirby estate by executor to William Henry Merritt
21 November 1818 · ODB 17/144
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 21 November 1818
- From
- James Kirby
- To
- William Henry Merritt
- Acting as
- executor
- Enslaved people named
- Fanny; Ely
- Citation
- ODB 17/144
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40009, “Record of Deeds, 1818-1821, Vols. 17, 18” (State Archives film).
Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Ely.
Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.
Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 17 (look for ODB 17/144). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- On this page, Chilton’s abstracts may give a deed the parties of its neighbor: UNC Greensboro’s catalog of slave deeds disagrees with them here, and on pages checked against the deed images the catalog was right. Check the deed image before relying on the parties.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 10 October 1814, naming Fanny
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 21 November 1818, naming Ely
